From: Ray O. <ra...@co...> - 2003-01-30 17:50:32
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At 05:32 PM 1/30/03 +0000, Lyndon Drake wrote: >On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:18, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > Am I correct in surmising that you have the > > problem with other software that uses xVideo, not just with xine? > >I don't know, as xine is the only XVideo software that I've tried. Can >you suggest anything else? mplayer and xawtv come immediately to mind. Surely there are others as well. (Maybe ogle uses xVideo? Probably.) > > If so, I suggest you go to the support site for that driver > > (http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html) and see if any of the advice > > there applies to your situatin. In my case, I found a specific warning > > about an undiagnosed problem with my card, leaving me with no solution > > other than xShm. You may be luckier than me, since your card is listed as > > supported without qualification ... but you may need a newer version of > the > > X driver than Debian ships (especially if you are using Woody/stable, not > > Sid/unstable). > >I'm using Debian unstable, and I've already tried getting the latest >Savage driver, so no luck there. Thanks for the suggestions though. "latest" can be a bit ill-defined. The "latest" source at the probo site is something_or_other.26, while the latest .deb there is something_or_other.23 . I don't recall what Sid thinks is "latest". And, apropos of Siggi's comment, the probo site mentions a big patch done by someone else that is in the XFree86 4.2.99 snapshot but, as I read it, not in the stuff at probo. And it mentions other things, like ongoing problems with xVideo at color depth 24. If you do find something that works ... especially somethign that is not peculiar to your specific Savage chipset ... I'd appreciate hearing about it, since I too am stuck with the same problem. Good luck. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA ra...@co... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |